19 14 years later, pound helped James Joyce publish Portrait of Young Artists and Ulysses. 1965438+In September 2004, Pound met with Eliot and thought that Eliot's poetry reached the standard of modern poetry. On his recommendation, Eliot's Love Song of Pruefer Locke was published. 192 1 year, Pound helped to revise Eliot's poem The Waste Land.
1920, Pound left London for Paris and met Hemingway. 1924 to Italy. 1928 settled in Labalo until World War II. Due to the confusion of political thoughts, he publicized Mussolini's fascist regime on Roman radio every week after the start of World War II and criticized the American war policy led by Roosevelt. 1943 charged with treason. 1944 was captured by American troops and imprisoned in Pisa prison camp. 1945, he was taken to Washington for trial, and was later taken to hospital because he was diagnosed with mental disorder. 1958, due to the appeal of poets and sympathizers such as Frost, the accusation of treason against him was cancelled. Pound returned to Italy and settled in Venice. He died in June 1973+065438+ 10/.
Pound published two poems, Ecstasy and Man, in London from 65438 to 0909. His speech in London was also included in the collection "The Spirit of the Romans", which was published in 19 10. 19 15 published the English version of China's ancient poem China. Japanese theater is translated from 19 16 to 19 17. 19 17, published a poem "Salute to Sextus Propertius", alluding to 19 17 England. 1920, an important work by Hugh Cervin Maubere was published. Pound claimed that it was a farewell poem to London, and Maubere was the poet himself. This poem satirizes 19 19 years of English literature and culture. 192 1 year, Pound wrote an opera in Paris. He also wrote some books about sculpture.
Pound's main poem is a long poem, which was published in batch in the form of "poem", starting from 19 17 and ending at 1959. 1969, publishing unfinished fragments. The whole poem * * * includes 109 poems and 8 unfinished drafts. According to Pound, he has been planning to write a modern epic since 1904, including biographies of famous people in world literature, art, architecture, mythology, economy and history, so as to reflect the achievements of mankind and depict a beautiful culture led by some people with correct thinking and action ability. This long poem is obscure, involving Italian architecture in the16th century, Provence poetry, Confucius philosophy, medieval economic history and so on.
The long poem 1 to 7 chapters are about the conception and theme of the poem; Chapters 8 to 1 1 are about Venetian soldier and art patron Sigismendo Malatesta. Chapters 12 to 13 compare the modern economy with the social order desired by Confucius' moral philosophy. Chapters 14 to 16 describe a passage of hell set in modern London, leading to Venice in the middle ages, which is a symbol of heaven in the poet's mind. Pound also wrote several American presidents he admired in his long poems: Chapters 3 1 to 33 are about Jefferson, 34 are about john quincy adams, 37 are about Martin Van Buren, and 62 to 7 1 are about john adams. Pound appreciated Mussolini's economic policy and cultural and artistic policy very much, thinking that he was the best leader at that time, so his long poem Chapter 4 1 was dedicated to Mussolini. Chapters 52 to 6 1 talk about the philosophy and ethics of China and Confucius and the peaceful and prosperous social order they pursued. In his long poems, Pound also criticized the exploitation of usury, arguing that the financial sector and the government's wrong control of wealth and currency was the root of the war.
A prominent part of the long poem is the Pisa poem written by Pound when he was imprisoned in the Pisa prison camp. This work won the Paulingen Poetry Award in 1948, when Pound was still a war criminal awaiting trial in the hospital. This decision caused great controversy. Poems of Pisa describes a journey through the "night of the soul" to Freja.
Pound's poetics plays an important role in the development of modern British and American poetry. At the beginning of the 20th century, he supported imagist poetry and impacted traditional poetics. His "Several Forbidden Examples Proposed by an Imagist" proposed that poetry should be concrete and avoid abstraction; Formally, it should allow connection, not tangent; We should be concise, don't waste words, don't embellish, don't use poetry to describe, describe and so on. He said that an image should be presented to people in an instant as a synthesis of emotion and reason, which means that the formation of image means that emotion and reason suddenly combine into a synthesis. When Pound broke away from Imagism and became keen on Vorticism, he developed this image view again. He said that image is not an idea, but a luminous nodule, a whirlpool, from which many ideas constantly rise, sink or pass. The interpretation of the special function of image has a great influence on the structure of modern poetry.
Pound's poetry theory promoted the development of British and American modernist poetry; His translation of China's ancient poems, Confucian philosophy and japanese theatre set off a climax of love for oriental literature and philosophy in British and American literary circles. His help and recommendation to budding writers made them masters of English and American literature, such as Frost, Lawrence, James Joyce and Eliot. In addition, he also had an obvious influence on the formation of Ye Zhi's later style.
Ezra Pound was a pioneer of "New Poetry Movement" in the early 20th century in the United States. In his mind, China was an ancient country with splendid civilization. Therefore, he thought that China was to the New Poetry Movement just like Greece was to the Renaissance. He launched the Imagist Poetry Movement in Britain and the United States, with the intention of using China's classical poetry aesthetics to support his Imagist Poetry Theory. He translated Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean and The Analects of Confucius, as well as The Book of Songs ordered by Confucius, and creatively translated Huaxia Collection (Shenzhou Collection), a famous collection of classical songs in China. Based on his unique understanding of Confucianism, he devoted all his energy to the profound work "Poetry". In chapter * * * 1 17, China's theme is everywhere in the chapter. From chapter 52 to chapter 6 1 * * 10, it is called "Poetry of China", which ranks the history of China from Yaoshun to Yongzheng and describes the prosperous ancient China. Pound has made unremitting efforts to understand and popularize China culture and China poetics, while American writers seldom know China culture and literature (especially classical poetry) through Pound's translation. Pound's China complex embodies the charm of Confucian culture in China. He reshaped the image of China as an American writer in the ancient oriental culture.